A tragic scene unfolded Monday in midtown Manhattan, where a shooting at an office building left at least five people dead — among them, an off-duty NYPD officer, according to sources who spoke with the Associated Press and other news organizations.
The suspect has been identified as Shane Tamura of Nevada. Authorities say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
News outlets tonight are digging too deep into Tamura’s background.. early reports suggest he may have once aspired to play in the NFL and didn’t make it. Could that have been a breaking point?
To those who lost their lives today: may you rest in peace. What an awful, senseless story.
In a small town in the west of Ireland, a dark chapter of history is being unearthed as forensic archaeologists begin the delicate process of exhuming and identifying the remains of hundreds of babies believed to be buried in a mass grave. The site, once a mother and baby home run by nuns, is now a housing estate.
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Catherine Corless, who began researching the Tuam Baby Home from her kitchen table, made the shocking discovery that 796 babies had died in the home.
“There was knowledge that something was here,” she said. “Yes, of course, it was just hidden a lot of them,” Corless said when speaking to the network.
Corless told CNN she was “horrified, absolutely horrified” upon discovering the lack of burial records for the babies. Despite resistance from some in the community and the Irish Catholic Church, she persisted in her research.
“I felt the resistance. I wasn’t expecting that,” she said when speaking to CNN.
Cordless was able to convince Ireland to former a commission to investigate..
The commission found that the remains of 802 children from newborns to three-year-olds were buried in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 as it discovered an “appalling” mortality rate of about 15 percent among children born at all of the so-called Mother and Baby Homes, which operated across Ireland.
Catholic nuns ran the so-called mother and baby institution from 1925 to 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and were shunned by their families. After giving birth, some children lived in the homes too, but many more were given up for adoption under a system that often saw church and state work in tandem..
At least 161 people remained missing in Kerr County, the place hit hardest by devastating floods that swept through Texas’ Hill Country five days ago, Gov. Greg Abbott said on Tuesday, as the slim hopes of finding survivors continued to fade.
The number of missing cited by the governor — the first time an official had identified the scale of the recovery operation still ahead — suggested the death toll of 111 could more than double as searchers continue to find bodies.
Officials in Kerr County acknowledged that no one had been found alive there since Friday.
The inspector with the Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed on July 2 that the Christian camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River had a state-mandated plan “for emergency shelter and for evacuation” in case of a disaster.
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Adding intrigue not being reported on your late local news or networks: The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed that cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred. NBC News reported that Augustus Doricko, the CEO of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said that planes had released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over 100 lives.
BREAKING: 🚨 NBC news CONFRIMS Cloud Seeding Operations were in fact CONDUCTED 2 days before Texas flooding disaster.
Something strange is happening in Philadelphia right now—a real-life social experiment unfolding in real time, and it’s not one the city signed up for. The so-called “City of Brotherly Love” is quickly becoming the City of Utter Garbage.
Sanitation workers—members of District Council 33—have gone on strike. So have workers from the Water Department. Even 911 operators briefly joined the picket line before court orders forced some of them back to work. But the most visible—and pungent—impact is coming from the absence of sanitation services.
The union’s grievances are real: they say wages haven’t kept up with inflation, cost-of-living increases have been ignored, and the value of their essential work has gone long unrecognized. And now, Philadelphia is about to learn just how valuable these workers are.
It’s been a little less than 24 hours since District Council 33, Philadelphia’s largest workers’ union, went on strike and dumpsters are already overflowing at designated trash drop-off sites.
Garbage is already piling up on street corners on day one of the strike. Giant dumpsters set up by the city—meant to act as temporary collection points—were filled by the end of the first day. Overflowing trash is now stacking beside them, baking in the 90-degree heat.
Mayor Cherelle Parker urged residents to drive their garbage to one of these dozens of authorized sites. But that suggestion is tone-deaf at best. Nearly 480,000 Philadelphians don’t own a vehicle. So unless you plan to walk your garbage in the summer heat through a city already buckling under stress, you’re out of luck.
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What we’re witnessing isn’t just a labor dispute—it’s a test of urban resilience. How long can a modern American city function without basic sanitation? At what point does trash become not just an inconvenience but a public health crisis? And what happens to the social fabric when the very people who keep the system running say, “Enough”?
Meanwhile, Mayor Parker and other city officials have accused some individuals of deliberately opening fire hydrants to sabotage water pressure—another alarming sign of social tension in the midst of this strike.
One thing is clear: this is going to get worse before it gets better.
District Council 33 has reached its breaking point. The bigger question now is: How long until the entire city of Philadelphia does too? Until then, garbage will keep rising—along with the stakes.
Hours after two firefighters were ambushed and fatally shot while responding to a blaze on Canfield Mountain, authorities announced that the suspected shooter was found dead on the burning mountain.
The suspect has not been publicly identified. His background and motives remain under investigation, police said. Authorities believe the suspect set the fire intentionally and acted alone.
“This was a total ambush,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said during a Sunday night news conference in Hayden. “These firefighters did not have a chance.”
There are media reports that a fire was intentionally set and when fire fighters arrived, they were ambushed! More reports indicate there is still some at large..
Iranian state television, ‘Mr. Trump, you started it and we will end it’…
Broadcast showed large graphic of American bases in Middle East with headline, ‘Within fire range’…
State TV Claims No Radiation Leak — Enriched Uranium Was Removed ‘Long Time Ago’… Developing…
After his address to the nation tonight, Trump posted again on TRUTH SOCIAL that any retaliation from Iran will be met with larger military actions by the United States..
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Israel has closed its airspace..
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Military information will not be released tonight, unusual for a campaign of this nature.. There is an 8am press briefing planned for Sunday morning..
If anyone was wondering what Donald Trump would do after his self-imposed “two-week deadline,” you don’t have to wonder anymore. Tonight, the world shifted again.
In a breaking weekend development, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to announce that the United States has bombed three nuclear sites inside Iran, including the Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan facilities.
According to his post, this marks a direct and aggressive military strike, escalating an already boiling conflict between Iran and Israel ..
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.”
Adding to the drama, Trump is set to address the nation tonight at 10:00 PM Eastern Time from the Oval Office. Saturday night live for Trump season 2…
No response has yet been issued by Iranian state media, but observers are bracing for fallout — politically, economically, and potentially militarily. Markets are likely to respond sharply when they open, and global leaders will be watching the Oval Office…
The suspect is at large and a massive manhunt is underway, officials said at the news conference. “This is a very large scale search,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said. “We have detained several people and questioned them, but we do not have anybody in custody at this time.”
Law enforcement was first called around 2:00 a.m. local time on Saturday with reports that someone had shot Hoffman and his wife. Police responded to their home and provided life-saving measures before the couple was transported to the hospital, according to Drew Evans, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension superintendentThe suspect is at large and a massive manhunt is underway, officials said at the news conference. “This is a very large scale search,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said. “We have detained several people and questioned them, but we do not have anybody in custody at this time.”
Law enforcement was first called around 2:00 a.m. local time on Saturday with reports that someone had shot Hoffman and his wife. Police responded to their home and provided life-saving measures before the couple was transported to the hospital, according to Drew Evans, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension superintendent…
Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, as well as their spouses, were shot in the overnight shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, sources told FOX 9’s Karen Scullin.
